Berenice Abbott (American, 1898–1991)

LOT ID: 70495

Exchange Place, ie. circa 1933

Silver Print, gelatin silver print

9.5 х 2.25 in. cm.

Signed, on mount, Abbott stamp on verso.

Lot description

Printed by Abbott before 1960.

This print was a gift from Berenice Abbott to the previous owner, a friend and former printer of Abbott’s. Abbott herself indicated the approximate date of the print, which was mounted and signed at a later date, on or about 1984. A document affirming this information will accompany the photograph.

Berenice Abbott (American, 1898–1991) was a notable photographer, born in Springfield, OH. After studying at Ohio State University, she traveled to New York to study sculpture, where she met Modernist visionaries Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Abbott began studying photography in the early 1920s, when she traveled to Europe and briefly attended both the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris and the Kunstschule in Berlin. While working as Man Ray’s assistant in Paris, Abbott first encountered the work of photographer Eugene Atget, whose influence became apparent in Abbott’s own work. Shortly thereafter, Abbott established a portrait studio, and photographed various artists and literary figures living in Paris, including James Joyce. Her first exhibition took place in 1926 at the Au Sacre du Printemps Gallery. In 1929, Abbott journeyed back to the United States and began what is perhaps her best-known project, a series of iconic photographs of New York City, which would make up her 1937 exhibition, Changing New York. Her book, also titled Changing New York, was subsequently published in 1938. Abbott was a teacher at the New School for Social Research until 1958, and established the Photo League with fellow American photographer Paul Strand in 1936. She died in Monson, ME in 1991.

Literature and Catalogue Raisoneé
Literature and Catalogue Raisoneé
Publication:

Abbott, Berenice. Berenice Abbott / by Hank O'Neal, Berenice Abbott (Photographer). Gottingen : Steidl Photography International, 2008. Yochelson, Bonnie. Berenice Abbott : Changing New York / Bonnie Yochelson. New York : New Press : Museum of the City of New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., c1997. Abbott, Berenice. Berenice Abbott / with an essay by Julia Van Haaften. New York, N.Y. : Aperture Foundation, 1988. O’Neal, Hank. Berenice Abbott, American photographer / by Hank O’Neal ; introduction by John Canaday ; commentary by Berenice Abbott. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1982. Lanier, Henry Wysham. Greenwich Village, today & yesterday. Photographs by Berenice Abbott. New York, Harper [1949]. Abbott, Berenice. Changing New York; photographs by Berenice Abbott, text by Elizabeth McCausland; a publication of the Federal art project of the Works progress administration in the city of New York, under the sponsorship of the Guilds’ committee for Federal writers’ publications, inc. New York, E.P. Dutton & company, inc., 1939.
Condition Report
Condition Report
Current lot doesn't have any damage.
History and Provenance
History and Provenance
Provenance:
Private collection, Maine (gift of the artist);
Private collection, Florida.
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LOT ID: 70495

Exchange Place, ie. circa 1933